Lebara vs Giff Gaff

[Mr Moofo]

Lebara seem to give more EU roaming data - but are both very similar?
Does anyone have real world experience?

When I was in Spain my phone, even though on 5G, had difficultly getting anything from the net on mobile data - is this because the parent network favours its own customers?

[KungFooBob]

Lebara is a virtual network on Vodafone.

Giff Gaff is a virtual network on o2.

imho 02 is betterer than VF.

[MyLittleStudPony]

I had a Giff Gaff SIM card once, and it disrespected me. Never again.

Whereas Lebara is #1 in Tamil Nadu.

[MrLongbeard]

I'm on GG, so is the wife, so is daughter, only our daughter has used it in that europe, she's in Gdansk at the mo, all I know is she hasn't complained to me about it

[mangocrazy]

I use a Lebara SIM in my Huawei wireless hotspot in the French moneypit and they give me 100Gb data per month for €20 as opposed to the paltry 5Gb roaming data I get with Giffgaff (for £8). And I can buy the SIM at the local Tabac, less than five minutes walk away. Mine is a fairly niche user experience I grant you but for anyone not wanting to sign up for a monthly contract, but still needing realistic amounts of data in rural France, it's a God-send and a complete no-brainer.

[mangocrazy]

The maximum monthly amount of data you'll get from UK providers with a UK SIM is 5Gb. That's basically a consequence of Brexit - pre-Brexit the allowance was 20GB. Lebara is a French networlk provider and they are competing against other French network providers in the marketplace and Brexit is an irrelevance to them, hence why their data offering is so much better value and more generous than UK providers.